[Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Sue Gardner wrote:
>Does it mean basically this: deWP put the Vulva article on its front
>page, and then held a poll to decide whether to i) stop putting
>articles like Vulva on its front page, because they might surprise or
>shock some readers, or ii) continue putting articles like Vulva on the
>front page, regardless of whether they surprise or shock some readers.
>And the voted supported the latter.

The poll asked whether there should be formalized restrictions beyond
the existing ones (only good articles can be proposed). Voters decided
against that and to keep the status quo instead where it is decided on
a case-by-case basis which articles to feature on the main page without
additional formalized selection criteria that would disqualify certain
articles. Put differently, they decided that if someone disagress that
a certain article should not be featured, they cannot point to policy
to support their argument.

>If I've got that right, I assume it means that policy on the German
>Wikipedia today would support putting Vulva on the main page. Is there
>an 'element of least surprise' type policy or convention that would be
>considered germane to this, or not?

Among editors who bothered to participate in the process, featuring
the article at all was not particularily controversial, but there
was a rather drawn out discussion about which, if any, image to use.
I have read much of the feedback at the time and my impression is
that this was not very different among "readers", most complaints
were about the image they had picked (and possibly some about images
in the article itself).

Keep in mind that continental europe's attitude towards sex is quite
different than north america's. I read this the other day and found
it quite illustrative, "While nine out of 10 Dutch parents had allowed
or would consider sleepovers once the child was 16 or 17, nine out of
10 American parents were adamant: “not under my roof.”".

>I'd be grateful too if anyone would point me towards the page that
>delineates the process for selecting the Article of the Day. I can
>read pages in languages other than English (sort of) using Google
>Translate, but I have a tough time actually finding them :-)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD:Hauptseite/Artikel_des_Tages
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